Lore Kadden Lindenfeld

Lore Kadden Lindenfeld (April 27, 1921 – April 8, 2010) was a German-American textile designer, and taught visual arts at Middlesex County College. Her work has been exhibited in group and private exhibits internationally, and comprises various museum collections in the New Jersey State Museum, Newark Museum, and the Museum of Arts and Design, New York.[1][2]

Life and education

Lore Kadden Lindenfeld was born in Wuppertal, Germany, to parents Frieda and Alfred Kadden. She attended school at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf, where she studied fashion design; however, she was shortly forced to flee to Holland due to Nazi rule. A year later, her family moved to the United States where she began a living as a seamstress and salesperson. Lore took classes at Harvard and attended the Institute for Social Progress at Wellesley College as well. A few years later, in 1948, she graduated from Black Mountain with a degree in Weaving and Textile Design. She earned a master’s degree Creative Arts Education from Rutgers University in 1982.[3]

Career

Lore’s first post-graduate employment was as a design assistant in a textile plant in New York where she helped design women’s coats and dresses.[2] She was one of the first women to become an industrial textile designer.[4] She then became a designer for Kanmak Textiles. Lore soon devoted her time raising her two children and as an independent weaver, creating pieces that represented her founded knowledge of patterns, colors, and designs.[1][5] She started the weaving department and was a faculty member in the Visual Arts department at Middlesex County College from 1968 to 1986 and taught weaving at the Princeton Adult School for many years.

Artistic significance

Lore focused primarily on weaving and fiber designs, using plastic raffia and wool fibers or ribbons.[1] She also created some pieces using paper and ink. Her work has made appearances in exhibits throughout the world, and she has collections in the Newark Museum, National Museum of American Art, the Fashion Institute of Technology, the Museum of Art and Design in New York, private collections in the United States and in Japan, the Paley Design Center, and others.[6]

Major works

  • Totem. 1981, wool, ribbons, plastic, raffia [7]
  • Triptych. 1982, wool, nylon, netting, plastic raffia [8]
  • Sado Island. 1991, polyester, Japanese paper, netting, yarn stitching and drawing [9]
  • Sado Island, Remembered Images. 1994, polyester, Japanese paper, netting, ink stitching, and drawing.[10]
  • Patterns of Growth. 1998.[11]
  • Transparent Forest. 1999 [12]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Lore Kadden Lindenfeld". Retrieved March 18, 2017.
  2. 1 2 "Lore Kadden Lindenfeld". "The Times". Retrieved March 18, 2017.
  3. ↑ "Lore Kadden Lindenfeld". Retrieved March 17, 2017.
  4. ↑ Benson, Julia (2003). "Weaving at the Bauhaus: Origins and Influences".
  5. ↑ "Lore Kadden Lindenfeld". Retrieved March 17, 2017.
  6. ↑ "Lore Kadden Lindenfeld". The Times. Retrieved March 18, 2017.
  7. ↑ "Totem". Retrieved March 18, 2017.
  8. ↑ "Triptych". Retrieved March 18, 2017.
  9. ↑ "Sado Island". Retrieved March 18, 2017.
  10. ↑ "Sado Island, Remembered Images". Retrieved March 18, 2017.
  11. ↑ "Patterns of Growth". Retrieved March 18, 2017.
  12. ↑ "Transparent Forest". Retrieved March 18, 2017.
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